Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research

15 February 2025

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Popp has been appointed Fellow of the newly founded Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. This alliance was established in 2024 with the support of the Bavarian University Conference (Universität Bayern e.V.) to bundle excellent interdisciplinary research on peace, conflict and security in Bavaria and make it internationally visible.

The kick-off event was held on February 13, 2025 on the fringes of the Munich Security Conference (MSC 2025). The event was organized by the Bavarian Science Alliance together with the MSC and focused on the opportunities and risks of digital technologies for peace and war.

The Bavarian Science Alliance brings together expertise from the social sciences, technology, natural sciences and humanities to develop innovative scientific perspectives on global security policy challenges. The aim is to develop solutions for peace and security issues in dialog with political decision-makers and social actors. The alliance also aims to establish Bavaria as a leading international research location in this field.

The work of the Alliance is divided into four thematic clusters:
1. peace and war (geopolitics, diplomacy, armaments, peacebuilding)
2. international law and human rights (human rights, international humanitarian law)
3. economy, technology and climate (digitalization, AI, climate change, sustainability)
4. culture, religion, democracy and ethics

The kick-off event on February 13, 2025 was entitled “Pushing the Frontiers: Assessing the Opportunities and Risks of Digital Technologies for Peace and War” and shed light on how technological innovations - in particular artificial intelligence (AI) - influence security and peace.

Highlights of the event included:
 - Opening speeches by Dr. Benedikt Franke (CEO of MSC), Markus Blume (Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts) and Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (President of the University of Regensburg, Chairman of the Science Alliance).
- Top-class panel discussion with leading experts, including Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala (Bundeswehr University, expert in strategy and early crisis detection), Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, expert in digital documentation of human rights violations), Dr. Max Smeets (ETH Zurich, expert in cybercrime and national security), Branka Panic (founder of AI for Peace, expert in AI and peace research).

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